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Distorting with Mesh Warp

Distorting with Mesh Warp

- The third warp tool I want to look at is the Mesh Warp. And I want to use it to make this car look as if it's leaping in the air. To give it a bit more of a cartoon dynamism. Down at the bottom here, where we had the Perspective tool, if we click and hold, we get the Mesh Warp Tool. And this gives us handles at the corner. And we can pick up each of these handles and move them around. And you can see how the car distorts as we drag. But each of the handles also has a bezier curve. And that controls the shape of the outside of this bounding box. So we can use that to pick the car up, give it a little bit more of a jaunty leap. As I say, this is giving it a very cartoony look. You could certainly use this tool very effectively for producing a flag distortion, for example. Or for making a banner hang from a couple of supports. I want to go for this cartoon appearance here. So that's the effect that I'm after in this case. You should note that with this tool, as with a perspective tool,…

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